Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (EPUB) von Ilana van Wyk

This volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity. The essays delve into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices and relations.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1 Thinking with Veblen: Case Studies from Africa’s Past and Present - Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk  
Chapter 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town – Deborah Posel
Chapter 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo – Nina Sylvanus
Chapter 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption within Afrikanerdom – Stephen Sparks
Chapter 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola – Claudia Gastrow
Chapter 6 Chiluba’s Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia – Karen Tranberg Hansen
Chapter 7 Jacob Zuma’s Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion – Ilana van Wyk
Chapter 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: A ‘Big Man’, his Women and his Funeral in Cameroon – Rogers Orock
Chapter 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger – Adeline Masquelier
Chapter 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen  – Jabulani G Mnisi
Chapter 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map – Bradley Rink
Chapter 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa – Sophie Chevalier
Chapter 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?! – Joni Brenner and Pamila Gupta
Contributors
Index